Cassina Blox Ebonized Oak Rectangular Coffee Table, Jehs + Laub, Italy, C. 2000.

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Cassina Blox Ebonized Oak Rectangular Coffee Table, Jehs + Laub, Italy, c. 2000.
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Cassina Blox Ebonized Oak Rectangular Coffee Table, Jehs + Laub, Italy, c. 2000. Blox, is a play on the addition and subtraction of geometric modules, conjuring an urban landscape of flanking and superimposed volumes. This Cassina coffee table is a complete design classic and long out of production. Simple sleek lines. “In the design process, we think about things we would like to have ourselves and then design them,” says Jürgen Laub, one half of German design team Jehs+Laub. From Ulm, Germany, Laub grew up with a carpenter father who modeled creativity at home. As Laub learned carpentry himself, he began building furniture. Partner Markus Jehs, from Stuttgart, remembers being surrounded in his parents’ home by “goods with a high value of design from different countries, which influenced me into loving the good stuff”. Both studied industrial design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung (College of Design) in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, and after a visit to Milan to see the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, they knew they wanted to show a piece of furniture there one day. Their friendship solidified while both were interning in New York, and after graduating, they opened Stuttgart-based Jehs+Laub in 1994. Reflecting on more than two decades of working together, Jehs says, “If a partnership is based on reaching the best outcome together and forgetting all the personal vanities, you will go much further than alone.” Laub agrees: “The most important part in our job is discussion. When there is something to think about, you also have to talk about it.” Influenced by the Bauhaus school, they believe the inten less